A fortnight ago, McInnes publicly announced that he had quit the Proud Boys, saying that he hoped the gesture “could help alleviate their sentencing.” He made the announcement just two days after The Guardian revealed the FBI had categorized the Proud Boys as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism.”

Since the arrests, the Proud Boys have been falling apart and are beset by infighting. McInnes himself, however, appears to be doing fine. On Monday, CNN reported he would be joining Blaze Media, a new conservative media company that merges TheBlaze and CRTV.

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“Gavin McInnes is a comedian and provocateur,” Blaze Media’s co-president Gaston Mooney told CNN. “[He] is one of the many varied voices and viewpoints on Blaze Media platforms.”

With the hiring of McInnes, it seems clear Beck has not learnt his lesson.

Blaze Media’s second co-founder is conservative commentator Mark Levin, who founded LevinTV, which later morphed into CRTV. “Tens of millions of Americans have had it with the biased, ideologically driven mainstream media outlets that sanctimoniously advance their own agendas under the guise of ‘news’ and ‘journalism,'” Levine told Townhall recently. “Conservatives actually believe in a free press and the rest of the Constitution.”